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Eugenia crebrinervis sp. nov. 
E. cyanocarpa F. Muell. var. montana C. T. White herb. 
Arbor magna, cortice lamellato, ramulis subvalidis ; folia elliptica, 
elliptico-lanceolata vel lanceolata, apice acuminata vel eaudato-acuminata 
basi cuneata, supra atro-viridia nitida, subtus opaca, pallidiora, nervis 
lateralibus crebris numerosis subtus prominulis, e costa media angulo 
ea. 60° orientibus, lamina 6-7*5 cm. longa 1-5-3-5 cm. lata, petiolo ca. 0*6-1 
cm. longo. Inflorescentiae terminates trichotome ramosae ca. 3-4 cm. 
longae, ramulis quam in E. oleosa et E. cyanocarpa rigidioribus et 
validioribus. Calyx turbinatus vel anguste turbinatus basin versus in 
pedieellum distinctum gradatim angustatus cum pedicello ca. 6 mm. 
longus; petala 4 (raro 5) fere orbiculata vel oblata; stamina numerosa 
tenuissima deinde patentia, ca. 6 mm. longa. Bacca globosa vel leviter 
depresso-globosa, ad 2*5 cm. diam., came farinacea, subacidula, semine 
plerumque solitario. 
New South Wales. — Tooloom Scrub, common in rain forest, 
C. T. White 12549 (fts.) 16-3-1944 (large tree buttressed at the base, bark 
scaly, leaves dark glossy green above, paler and opaque beneath, fruits 
purple slightly depressed globular up to 2*5 cm. diam., flesh mealy, very 
slightly acidulous, with a single very depressed seed, usually very badly 
grub-infested) . 
Queensland. — Moreton District: Lamington National Park, alt. 
3,000 ft., D. A. & L. S. Smith (type: fls.), 31-12-1943 (tree in rain 
forest) ; Roberts Plateau, Lamington National Park, C. T. White (fls.), 
27-2-1920 (very large tree with scaly bark) ; Mt. Mistake, Mrs. M. S. 
Clemens (young fts.), Jan. 1944; Mt. Glorious, Mrs. M. S. Clemens 
(young fts.), Jan. 1945. 
I had at first regarded this as a variety of E. Coolminiana C. Moore 
(E. cyanocarpa F. Muell.) and named it up as such in the Queensland 
Herbarium. I quote my herbarium name as it is possible some specimens 
may have been distributed under it. The tree has long been known to 
us in the field and is represented in the Queensland Herbarium by several 
sheets other than those quoted above, but the material in all cases is only 
fragmentary. It is difficult to draw a sharp line between the three 
species, but the outstanding features of E. crebrinervis C. T. White are 
the close arrangement of the lateral nerves and the apparently constant 
terminal inflorescence. They can be keyed out as follows : — 
Small or medium sized trees, lateral nerves 3-4 mm. apart, 
inflorescence axillary or terminating short lateral branches. 
Calyx narrowly turbinate markedly tapering towards the 
base into a pedicel. A tropical species . . . . . . E. oleosa. 
Calyx broadly turbinate, sessile or more or less abruptly 
tapering towards the base into an exceedingly short 
pedicel. Port Jackson to Tropic of Capricorn . . E. Coolminiana. 
Xiarge tree, lateral nerves 1-2 mm. apart, inflorescence terminal, 
calyx turbinate to narrow-turbinate tapering into a distinct 
pedicel, sometimes abruptly so. A mountain species of 
Northern N.S. Wales and Southern Queensland . . . . E. crebrinervis. 
C. E. Hubbard, l.c., describes the flowers of E. Coolminiana C. Moore 
(E. cyanocarpa F. Muell.) as borne on pedicels of 2-4 mm., but after a 
close examination of a number of Australian specimens I would call them 
sessile or nearly so unless we regard the ultimate branches of the inflore- 
scence as pedicels — which is sometimes done in Eugenia. 
